Reason 8/3/1994: Justice Stephen Breyer takes oath. Justice Stephen Breyer ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil …
On a Friday morning in April 2012, heavily armed sheriff’s deputies stormed into Bob and Addie Harte’s house in Leawood, Kansas, looking for a nonexistent marijuana garden. The deputies confined …
Officials in Redwood City, California, removed a “Black Lives Matter” mural they had allowed to be painted on a city street. The move came after a supporter of President Donald …
On Friday, Connecticut became the second state to pass a law limiting qualified immunity, the doctrine that shields police officers and other public employees from most liability for violating constitutional …
Yesterday, I wrote about faculty and students being required to take pledges to support certain values, such as diversity and inclusion. These pledges do not define what actions have to …
8/2/1923: President Calvin Coolidge’s Inauguration. He would appoint Justice Harlan Fiske Stone to the Supreme Court. President Calvin Coolidge ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds …
Eleven days after the first case of an American suffering from COVID-19 was reported, an essayist at an online journal run by the Claremont Institute—whose stated purpose is to “restore …
From yesterday’s Clifford v. Trump, decided by Chief Judge Sidney Thomas, Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw, and Jacqueline Nguyen: As alleged in the complaint, Ms. Clifford began an intimate relationship with …
My general policy, which I flagged on Friday, is to not sign any statement I do not write. I share many of Keith’s concerns about the risks of joining open …
So reports The Oregonian (Maxine Bernstein); this is the condition I discussed a few days ago: “defendant may not attend any other protests … or public gatherings in … Oregon.” …